A couple. What else can be more real? Reproaches, unfulfilled promises, fears, remorse, banal and illogical gestures, failed acts, looking for a scapegoat, etc. A classic tragic couple. The most classic tragic couple ever imagined. Let us remember Othello and Desdemona (Shakespeare), Clytemnestra and Agamemnon (Aeschylus), etc. And yet, in times when the quotidian tragic causes the tragedy to become non-representable, Ionesco’s writing, refractory to the mimetic representation of the real, offers a de-dramatization of family relationships, by providing surreal aspects for the infernal mechanics of the existential. As it happens in a dream – the starting point of this …